The History of Now: The Important American Folk Art Collection of David Teiger | Sold to Benefit Teiger Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art

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Lot 1205
  • 1205

NATIVE AMERICAN MAIDENAMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY | Native American MaidenAmerican School, 19th Century

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Sold
7,500 USD
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Description

  • carved and polychromed pine figurehead
  • Height 25 in. by Width 11 in. by Depth 15 1/2 in.
  • circa 1840

Provenance

Dr. William Greenspon, New York;
Giampietro American Art and Antiques, New Haven, Connecticut.

Literature

Roger Ricco and Frank Maresca, American Primitive (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1988) p. 76, fig. 94;
Tom Geismar and Harvey Kahn, Spiritually Moving:  A Collection of American Folk Art Sculpture (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998) cat. no. 73, illus. in color.
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